Each of these scholars are respected and established experimentalists and their work covers the diversity of experimental methods and substantive areas in Political Science. I am grateful to Betsy, Jon, Liz, and Rick for agreeing to stay on as associate editors and to Cheryl, Jaime, Jenn, and Sarah for joining the team. With their help, I am confident that JEPS will remain a vibrant outlet for cutting-edge, high-quality experimental research.

I am also happy to announce that, with the help of the outgoing editorial team and (especially) the yeoman efforts of Rick Wilson, JEPS has cleared its backlog and is on track to publish three issues by the end of 2017. Stay tuned for some great research!

Moving forward, JEPS will adopt the following approaches to help speed turnaround time, while maintaining high standards.

Associate Editors will be empowered to make decisions about the manuscripts assigned to them. They are the experts in their fields of study and I will respect their decisions

The editorial team will be committed to making decisions about desk rejects quickly

As a reminder, JEPS invites scholars who have a paper that journals have declined to publish to submit a revised paper along with the review history of reviews and communication with the editor(s) from the journal(s) along with a memo explaining how they have addressed reviewers concerns

We will now only require data replication materials once a paper has been accepted for publication (as opposed to at the R&R stage)